MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1.2 ? creating a Cluster is now trivial @ Andrew Morg…MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1.2 is now available to download and try from Oracle E-Delivery (select ?MySQL Database? as the product pack). Something that?s new and really cool in the new version is that you can download a version of MCM that actually includes the MySQL Cluster software itself and then you can have MCM automatically define, create and start a single-host cluster deployment for you with just the command ?mcmd ?bootstrap?.

Snow Panic Has Driven Weather.com Completely InsaneAnd then there’s the “Nemo” thing. At the start of this storm season, The Weather Channel announced it would be naming winter storms pretty much just to make it easier to scare people; “WINTER STORM DRACO IS COMING” sounds a lot more terrifying than “a cold front will bring 2 ? 3 inches of snow on Thursday.” The National Weather Service very huffily refuses to acknowledge these names, but #Nemo has already started trending on Twitter.

Designers, Classic Playing-Card Maker Win Big on Kickstarter | Wired Design |…The company doesn’t just make the same sets of cards over and over, though. Its printing presses are also able to create custom decks. The program has grown over the years with a small community of card artists producing limited editions ? but new designers, taking advantage of Kickstarter’s promotional power, have upped the ante. In just the last few months the crowdfunding site has fostered dozens of 52-card projects by these independent designers, raising over $600,000 in aggregate.

SimCity Goes Educational | GeekDad | Wired.comMy first serious game addiction turns educational with a new SimCityEDU site and a focus on STEM. EA recently announced the launch of this online resource to support the use of SimCity as a learning tool.

USPS announces new delivery scheduleThe United States Postal Service announced plans today to transition to a new delivery schedule during the week of Aug. 5, 2013 that includes package delivery Monday through Saturday, and mail delivery Monday through Friday. The Postal Service expects to generate cost savings of approximately $2 billion annually, once the plan is fully implemented.

DiscourseWhy break conversations into awkward and arbitrary pages, where you have to constantly find the Next Page button?

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked…Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T?s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell?s Achilles? heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of ?phone phreaks? who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI.

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked…Before smartphones and iPads, before the internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world?s largest machine: the telephone system. The following is an excerpt from the new book Exploding the Phone written by Phil Lapsley and published by Grove/Atlantic, which tells the story of the ?phone phreaks.?